User:John Cummings/community/development
To do:
- Reorder
- How you can get involved
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Development[edit]
Many Commons tools, gadgets, bots and workflows might be affected if these want to also work with structured metadata on Wikimedia Commons.
The transition of affected tools is mainly tracked on Phabricator.
- See the main task at phabricator:T173971.
- A Google spreadsheet collects more than 100 tools that have been identified as being useful for Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and GLAM. Anyone can add input and comments there.
- The table below lists the tools that are selected as being important, and/or that have potential for Structured Commons, and that are actively tracked.
- General Phabricator task for tracking Javascript-based tools: phabricator:T178187
- Want to help others with this transition? Add your user name + interests/skills at the bottom of this page.
Prioritization survey, December 11-22, 2017[edit]
It is difficult to measure actual usage of tools (see Phabricator:T178834: Provide any rough metrics for tool and project usage), so the Structured Commons team has initiated a short survey to prioritize community tools for Commons and Wikidata. Participate in the survey here.
- While not ideal, input collected via the survey help the Structured Commons team understand which functionalities are most important to the community, and which tools will need support in the conversion to structured data.
- All Our Ideas is a funky survey environment (yes, you can keep clicking endlessly). We are aware of its imperfections. Still, the more input we get, the better.
If you think important tools are still missing: add them to the spreadsheet. They can still be added to this survey and/or included in the further process.
This survey closes on Friday, December 22, at 16:00 UTC.
Actively tracked tools[edit]
| Tool name / code repository | Maintainer | What it does | Main category | Tracked / issues | Status |
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| Pattypan / Github | Yarl | Mass upload to Commons via spreadsheets | Upload | phabricator:T181057 / Github issue |  Not started yet
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| QuickStatements2 / code | Magnus Manske | Bulk editor for structured data | Bulk editing | phabricator:T181062 / Bitbucket issue | Not started yet
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| Commons Android app / Github | Contributors | Smartphone app that shows nearby Wikidata items lacking a P18 image, and allows users to take a picture, write multilingual descriptions, select appropriate categories (with suggestions based on geolocation/history/text, and upload it to Wikimedia Commons, automatically setting the P18. | Upload | phabricator:T181136 | Not started yet
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| LrMediaWiki plugin for Adobe Lightroom / Github | Hasenläufer | Open source plugin for Adobe Lightroom; one of the frequently-used upload tools to Wikimedia Commons | Upload | phabricator:T181224 | Not started yet
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| Tool name / code repository | Maintainer | What it does | Main category | Phab / issue | Not started yet
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Handy links[edit]
- Commons:Tools
- Commons:Upload tools
- All tools on Toolforge
- Hay's tools directory - search for Commons
- Magnus' visual alternative to Hay's tool directory - select Commons tools
Contact for support[edit]
- SandraF (WMF) (talk) - community liaison for Structured Commons. Not a programmer myself, but I can ask around and try to enlist help for specific technical questions.
Structured data across Wikimedia[edit]
The continuation of the Structured Data on Commons project is the Structured Data Across Wikimedia (SDAW) project, which is currently under development by a follow-up restricted grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The SDAW project aims to make structure content more available on wikitext pages in a way that will be machine-recognizable. The goal is to make reading, editing, and searching easier and more accessible across projects and on the Internet.
Research and resources about GLAM and (Structured Data on) Wikimedia Commons[edit]
How do cultural institutions use and contribute to Wikimedia Commons? What are their needs? How are their media files on Commons re-used by external platforms? The following resources provide insight:
Related to Structured data on Commons:
- (2017-18) GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons – a research project to understand the need for and potential impact of structured data integration for GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons.
- (2018) The GLAM workflow on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons – a general overview of the typical process of a GLAM project on Wikidata or (structured) Wikimedia Commons
- (2018) Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media – this research project includes re-users who use a lot of GLAM-related media files in their websites and applications.
- (2019-present) Wikidata:Linked open data workflow - tools and scripts in the linked data workflow for Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons
IIIF: links, resources and discussion[edit]
International Image Interoperability Framework (Q22682088) integration has not been part of the development roadmap for Structured Data on Commons, during 2017 and 2019, but there are several volunteer-driven IIIF tools. The improved Commons API (with structured data) also makes new IIIF applications easier to develop. This page brings together relevant resources around IIIF and Wikimedia projects.